Variable in a Bulk Insert Statement

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Variable in a Bulk Insert Statement

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orosario
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Posted - 2005-07-28 : 09:32:24

I need to include a variable in a Bulk Insert statement, when I do it the query analizer doesn't accept the variable... Please Help Me..

Here is the code :

bulk insert tblForms FROM @Path

where @Path is of a variable type nvarchar(128)...

madhivanan
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Posted - 2005-07-28 : 09:38:47

something like this

declare @File varchar(100)
declare @SQL varchar(300)
set @File='''D:\test.txt'''
print @File

Set @SQL ='bulk insert TableName from '+@File+' WITH (
  DATAFILETYPE = ''char'',
  FIELDTERMINATOR = '' '',
  TABLOCK
)'

exec (@SQL)

Madhivanan

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